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Welcome to my final “Retrospeculative TV” review. I had always intended to do more of these, but reviewing an entire series gets kind of grueling after a while, particularly when you're kind of burned out on the show, and when you know no one is reading anyway. After taking a substantial break, I decided to resume my coverage of Babylon 5, working my way through Season 3, and possibly on to the end of the show.

Wonder of wonders. SyFy has woken from the dead and is actually trying to be a science fiction channel again. Succeeding more than it fails, too, in tonight's premiere of The Expanse. The sci-fi feel is right, there's some legitimate world-building going on and enough decent visuals to triumph over the herky-jerky feel of cramming all that into an hour of television.

Thanks to the walking miracle of robotechnology that is Dave, I now have an Amazon author's page. What this means is that my books are now all linked together on one page. All you have to do is put in my name and it takes you there, rather than having to surf all over creation to find my stuff.

A tower collapses on the walls that protect a community from a besieging horde of Walkers. It's pandemonium as the Walkers stream in. You wouldn't think boring would be the word to describe what happens next. And yet here we are.

Everybody just goes into their houses while the Walkers wander around. None of the living humans do much of anything interesting inside. The conflicts that have been set up to date dutifully play out in a manner lacking all inspiration. Then a stupidly cruel coda closes it out.

This show is like a John Woo version of a dystopian “Kill Bill” crammed into the formulaic structure of “Dynasty” on steroids. So there’s no middle ground here--either that idea appeals to you or it doesn’t. At present, it seems to add up to killer visuals riding a dime novel story.

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